I JUST couldn't believe it when I saw that all Greens candidates have been disqualified from standing in the forthcoming elections in Lake Macquarie due to a monumental blunder by the party on nomination procedure.
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It was like a Monty Python sketch.
Something as simple as the method of payment of the nomination fee has torpedoed a whole team from standing. Someone should have known that the fees could not have been paid by a plastic card but by cash or cheque.
And it just shows that political parties should stay right out of local government.
Voters in Lake Macquarie will have the choice of the two old and tired major parties, Liberal and Labor, two formal independent groupings, which may as well be parties, and a number of real single independents not aligned to any group.
Voters should back the real independents and avoid the major parties and the formal independent groupings.
- Chris Osborne, Marks Point
